It can be argued that cinema was created in France by Louis Lumiere
in 1895 with the invention of the cinematographe, the first true
motion-picture camera and projector. While there were other cameras
and devices invented earlier that were capable of projecting
intermittent motion of images, the cinematographe was the first
device capable of recording and externally projecting images in
such a way as to convey motion. Early films such as Lumiere's La
Sortie de l'usine, a minute-long film of workers leaving the
Lumiere factory, captured the imagination of the nation and quickly
inspired the likes of Georges Melies, Alice Guy, and Charles Pathe.
Through the years, French cinema has been responsible for producing
some of the world's best directors-Jean Renoir, Jean-Luc Godard,
Francois Truffaut, and Louis Malle-and actors-Charles Boyer,
Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu, and Audrey Tautou. The A to Z
of French Cinema covers the history of French film from the silent
era to the present in a concise and up to date volume detailing the
development of French cinema and major theoretical and cultural
issues related to it. This is done through a chronology, an
introduction, photographs, a bibliography, and hundreds of
cross-referenced dictionary entries on many of the major actors,
directors, films, movements, producers, and studios associated with
French cinema. Going beyond mere biographical information, entries
also discuss the impact and significance of each individual, film,
movement, or studio included. This detailed, scholarly analysis of
the development of film in France is useful to both the novice and
the expert alike.
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